Organization and Management of Educational Settings

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The curricular unit’s content will be developed through theoretical and practical lessons,where models and theoretical concepts will be presented. Also, analysis and discussion of texts/legislation as well as practical work will be adopted.
Students can opt for continuous assessment or assessment by exam.
Continuous assessment is based on the permanent involvement and quality of student participation in group activities in carrying out group work (50%) and an eportefólio (50%).
The assessment by exam consists of a written test that addresses all the topics covered (100%).

– Recognize the importance of organizational variables of education in teaching-learning processes and in the behavior and attitudes of Educators;
– Get to know the main models of analysis and organizational management, concerning educational institutions;
– Get to know the Portuguese Education System, its guiding principles and organization;
– Adopt practices acording to the orientations expressed in the Foundation Law of the Education System and the Regime of Autonomy and Administration of Schools;
– Identify the different management units and pedagogical coordenation departments and their competencies.

Module 1- The educational institution as an organization.
Module 2 – Organizational communication and leadership processes
Module 3 – The regime of autonomy, administration and management of preschool and elementary school public institutions
Module 4 – Private and Cooperative Educational Institutions and Private Institutions of Social Solidarity: contexts of educational activity
Module 5 – The process of teachers and schools’s evaluation

• - Exam - 100.0%

• - E-Portfolio - 50.0%
• - Individual and/or Group Work - 50.0%

NAO

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